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Tesla was born to Serbian parents in the town of Smiljan in the Austrian Empire. -
Tesla began his studies in mechanical and electrical engineering -
Tesla moved to Paris, to work as an engineer for the Continental Edison Company -
identified the rotating magnetic induction field principle used in alternators and pioneered the use of this rotating and inducting electromagnetic field force to generate torque in rotating machines. -
Tesla claims he was offered US$50,000 if he redesigned Edison's inefficient motor and generators. -
The Tesla Electric Light & Manufacturing was a company formed by Nikola Tesla -
Tesla began investigating what would later be called X-rays using his own single terminal vacuum tubes> -
Nikola Tesla delivered a lecture entitled A New System of Alternating Current Motors and Transformers, describing the equipment which allowed efficient generation and use of polyphase alternating currents. -
A Tesla coil is a type of resonant transformer circuit -
The International Exposition was held in a building which was devoted to electrical exhibits. -
Tesla's patents state that the device was intended for the use of fluids as motive agents, as distinguished from the application of the same for the propulsion or compression of fluids -
Tesla was embroiled in other problems at the time, but when Marconi won the Nobel Prize -
The term teleforce refers to Nikola Tesla's macroscopic charged particle beam projector. The device was based upon a large Van de Graaff generator of unique design and a special type of open-ended vacuum tube -
Tesla died of heart failure alone in room 3327 of the New Yorker Hotel -
The tesla (symbol T) is the SI derived unit of magnetic field B (which is also known as "magnetic flux density" and "magnetic induction")